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The Second Mask
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The Red Room
Collared Fire
Mirror Teeth
The Judas Kiss
The Inferno Show
The Smoldering Hunt
The Thorn Crown
The Velvet Guillotine
The Bed of Knives
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The Rite of Flesh and Fire
The Taste of War
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The Black Guard’s Shadow
The Confrontation
Voss’s Choice
The Bait and the Blade / Voss Breaks the Chain
The Lovers’ War Room / The Reckoning in Smoke
Dehn’s Betrayal / Lysia’s Name War
The Broadcast of Her Name
The March and the Trap
The Gate and the Ghost
The Mask of Liberty
The Remains/The Ashes Speak
The Fire That Stays
Into the Maw of Smoke
The Wages of Fire
The Knife Inside the Veil
Ashes that Breathe
Sparks in the Hollow
Edenfall
The Man in the Ashes
What Monsters Learn
The Broken Crown
Embers in the Blood
Fault Lines Beneath
The Ties That Burn
The Edge of Flame
Beneath the Smoke
The Seeds of Collapse
The Poison Within
The Burning Bluff
Sparks in the Ash
Cleansers
The Hollow Crown
Smoke Signals
The Woman in the Cell
Dust and Dawn

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Fault Lines Beneath
Chapter 45 – Fault Lines Beneath
The morning after her speech, Ameena awoke in Aetherfall’s commandeered city hall—a glass-and-stone monolith that once housed officials who’d signed away women’s rights in exchange for power. Now, revolutionaries walked its corridors. The air smelled of gun oil and c...